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In this letter, we delve into a scenario where a user aims to compute polynomial functions using their own data as well as data obtained from distributed sources. To accomplish this, the user enlists the assistance of $N$ distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhiquan Tan , Dingli Yuan , Zhongyi Huang

We consider the problem of designing rateless coded private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and wants to hire worker nodes to help compute the multiplication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

Delegating large-scale computations to service providers is a common practice which raises privacy concerns. This paper studies information-theoretic privacy-preserving delegation of data to a service provider, who may further delegate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv

This paper presents a perfectly secure matrix multiplication (PSMM) protocol for multiparty computation (MPC) of $\mathrm{A}^{\top}\mathrm{B}$ over finite fields. The proposed scheme guarantees correctness and information-theoretic privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zixuan He , Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi , Derya Malak , Photios A. Stavrou

This paper considers the problem of outsourcing the multiplication of two private and sparse matrices to untrusted workers. Secret sharing schemes can be used to tolerate stragglers and guarantee information-theoretic privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Maximilian Egger , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Rawad Bitar

We consider private polynomial computation (PPC) over noncolluding coded databases. In such a setting a user wishes to compute a multivariate polynomial of degree at most $g$ over $f$ variables (or messages) stored in multiple databases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication (SDMM) in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We construct polynomial codes for SDMM by studying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , David Karpuk

Encrypted control systems allow to evaluate feedback laws on external servers without revealing private information about state and input data, the control law, or the plant. While there are a number of encrypted control schemes available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Sebastian Schlor , Michael Hertneck , Stefan Wildhagen , Frank Allgöwer

We consider the problem of communication efficient secure distributed matrix multiplication. The previous literature has focused on reducing the number of servers as a proxy for minimizing communication costs. The intuition being, that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Roberto Assis Machado , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein

To preserve data privacy, multi-party computation (MPC) enables executing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms on private data. However, MPC frameworks do not include optimized operations on sparse data. This absence makes them unsuitable for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter , Jan Ramon

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. In this paper, we answer the following question: Is it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) secure multiplication in distributed computing systems, focusing on regimes where perfect privacy and perfect accuracy cannot be simultaneously achieved. Specifically, N nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

We introduce PrivPy, a practical privacy-preserving collaborative computation framework, especially optimized for machine learning tasks. PrivPy provides an easy-to-use and highly compatible Python programming front-end which supports…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yi Li , Yitao Duan , Yu Yu , Shuoyao Zhao , Wei Xu

Private Computation (PC), recently introduced by Sun and Jafar, is a generalization of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in which a user wishes to privately compute an arbitrary function of data stored across several servers. We construct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 David Karpuk

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

In a large-scale distributed machine learning system, coded computing has attracted wide-spread attention since it can effectively alleviate the impact of stragglers. However, several emerging problems greatly limit the performance of coded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Nguyen Cong Luong , Dusit Niyato

Computationally efficient matrix multiplication is a fundamental requirement in various fields, including and particularly in data analytics. To do so, the computation task of a large-scale matrix multiplication is typically outsourced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jaber Kakar , Seyedhamed Ebadifar , Aydin Sezgin